In many cases future H-1B visa holders have already been in the U.S. as international students.
Under the reforms, some immigrant entrepreneurs will be able to employ themselves with an H-1B visa.
The final step would be to file for an H-1B visa or a green card.
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Numerous business and trade organizations have asked Congress to reform the H-1B visa program.
The H-1B visa program, established in 1990, creates 65, 000 visas a year for highly skilled workers.
But an H-1B visa or green card may not be available, and the wait can be years.
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In order to capture this talent and support our economy, we must reform our H-1B visa program.
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U.S. companies each year can sponsor a total of 65, 000 foreigners with at least a bachelor's degree for an H-1B visa.
But the H-1B visa battle over legal entry for the highly trained--many from Asia--is also part of the swirling American debate.
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (CIS) announced this week that it had filled its annual H-1B visa quota for foreign high-skilled workers.
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Amrita Mahale, who earned a master's in engineering from Stanford, is among employees on an H-1B visa at Pocket Gems, the California game company.
Foreign physical therapists need to run a gauntlet of tests and procedures before even confronting the lack of an H-1B visa or green card.
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Currently, an employer must pay H-1B visa holders the higher of the prevailing or actual wage paid to similarly employed U.S. workers in the same area.
Back in June 2012, I wrote a column about how no one on a new H-1B visa could start work in America for another 15 months.
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Even then, foreign physical therapists may find an H-1B visa is unavailable or the wait for a green card could take years, particularly for nationals of India and China.
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The bipartisan plan unveiled Monday proposes, among other things, an expansion of the H-1B visa program and granting green cards to anyone with an advanced STEM degree from an American university.
Given that using an H-1B visa is often the only practical way to hire a foreign national to work long-term in the U.S. that would present a major problem for growth and innovation.
As of 2008, one-third of all Silicon Valley companies were founded or co-founded by Indian or Chinese nationals who were able to legally work in the U.S. with an H-1B visa or green card.
Marie came to the Hutchinson Center in 2002 as a medical fellow in 2002, worked on an H-1B visa, and was sponsored for her employment-based green card by the center, becoming a permanent resident in 2008.
Several studies have shown H-1B visa holders are paid comparable to U.S. workers with similar experience (Government Accountability Office, Magnus Lofstrom, and others) and employers must pay thousands of dollars in legal and government fees per H-1B.
While former H-1B visa holders comprise less than 1 percent of the U.S. population, 60 percent of the finalists had parents who entered the U.S. on H-1B visas, which are generally the only practical way to hire skilled foreign nationals.
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The stimulus bill the president signed into law restricts the use of bank bailout funds (money banks get from the Financial Stability Plan, formerly known as the Troubled Asset Relief Program) to hire skilled foreign workers under the H-1B visa program.
But the increased cap will also come with additional costs, including an increase in the minimum wage that an employer must pay to an H-1B visa holder, and additional fees for those employers whose workforce is composed of more than 30 percent of H-1B holders.
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Up until recently, a foreign national could found a business and the company could petition for him or her on an H-1B temporary visa.
Boosting employment-based green cards is a great reform but it is not going to eliminate the need for a workable H-1B temporary visa (and a higher annual quota).
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In practical terms, an H-1B temporary visa is often the only way to hire a foreign national long-term to work in the United States, including international students off U.S. campuses.
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Illinois immigration attorney David Rubman, suspicious that the annual 65, 000 H-1B high-skilled visa quota was not being filled, filed a Freedom of Information Act request, which U.S. Customs and Immigration Services (USCIS) complied with last week.
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At issue in the U.S. are high-skill worker visas called H-1B that have been dubbed the "outsourcing visa" by critics who say the system allows companies to bring in cheaper tech workers from abroad instead of hiring Americans.
The most direct way to provide more labor mobility, including within a company, is to allow individuals waiting for green cards in the United States (often in H-1B status) to apply for adjustment of status even when a visa number is not yet available.
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